Word: request
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Several hundred Central Americans arriving last week in the U.S. got a nasty welcome from the Immigration and Naturalization Service: they were promptly incarcerated. Under a new hard-line policy, refugees are detained while awaiting action on their request for political asylum, then deported if rejected by the INS. This time roughly 110 men and women were confined behind barbed wire at a detention center near Bayview, Texas, while about 200 mothers with children were held at a Red Cross shelter in nearby Brownsville...
...first involved my twice asking a man to dance. As it turned out, he was the guest of a Mather House resident. I should have realized after the first request that he wasn't interested. He claims that my second request involved physical contact. I deny that charge. At the time, I didn't consider my actions to be offensive. In looking back over the incident, however, I realize that my second request was out of line...
...evening, after a House tutor and I had broken up the last bout of shouting, my friends and I sat down with the tutor. My friends, at the tutor's request, then spent over an hour recounting the evening's events. They described the hatred that came out of their mouths as honestly as they described the offensive language hurled at them. What that tutor and I heard was the truth...
...council's president withdrew Hernandez-Gravelle's request when members rightfully argued that the student government should not have to sponsor official College programs...
Most of the clinic's clients, says Director John H. Willoughby, are "gay men in their 20s," who have been diagnosed with the disease. The clients often request assistance in such areas as consumer law, estate law and housing discrimination...